Brian Keith Vess
Owner and Technician
Brian is the owner and operator for WebSoftPC, with over 15 years in IT support. He holds certifications in VMware, Cisco, Fortigate, Linux, Windows and various storage technologies. Brian’s background in the IT industry will help you with your IT problems and provide solutions that will help your company grow. Whether you are an established company or just starting out, Brian can inform you of all the pitfalls you might encounter and help you resolve all your IT needs without costing you a fortune
Brian’s goal and the goal of WebSoftPC, is to provide small businesses just starting out with enterprise IT solutions without the enterprise prices. Solutions that will grow with you as your company grows. Brian’s expertise with open source software and server technologies can deploy your IT solution even if you are starting from scratch. Every thing from web presence, networking, email, and document collaboration, Brian will work with you every step of the way and provide documentation that will enable you to be able to support your environment.
On Brian’s off time, he is an avid photographer and loves to grill on the weekend. Check out his site brianvessphotography.com. Gives us a call and tell us about your needs and problems. We will provide you a well planned docuemented solution for all you IT needs.
Web Design
Is your website badly out of date? Did your developer disappear on you, or is hard to catch? Are you losing customers because you aren’t mobile-friendly? Do you feel like you’re spinning your wheels and your site is a money pit, instead of a money generator?
For a small business, your website needs to function like a salesman on autopilot all the time. It needs to be primed to convert your visitors into new business. Stop wasting your time on a dud website. Customers looking for your products or services will judge your business by what they see, and how they interact with you online.
Web Design
At WebSoftPC, we understand that your website is a reflection of your business. Whether you need a redesign or starting from scratch, we can help you get your site done quickly with no delays. Give us a call for a free consultation.
Local Web development, local setup, local support by WebSoftPC in the greater Sacramento, California area. Contact us today for a free consultation.
Search Engine Optimization
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the art and science of getting pages to rank higher in search engines such as Google. Because search is one of the main ways in which people discover content online, ranking higher in search engines can lead to an increase in support to a website.
We know that a clear majority of the world that has access to the internet is visiting Google at least once a day to get information.
Responsive Design
Responsive Web design has become an essential tool for anyone with a digital presence. With the growth of smartphones, tablets and other mobile computing devices, more people are using smaller-screens to view web pages.
Google rolled out a change to the search engine algorithms which now factor in a website’s mobile presence as a ranking signal. The date was aptly named Mobilegeddon. This reason alone can justify responsive design!
Firewall and Security
A firewall is a network security device that monitors incoming and outgoing network traffic and decides whether to allow or block specific traffic based on a defined set of security rules.
Firewalls have been a first line of defense in network security for over 25 years. They establish a barrier between secured and controlled internal networks that can be trusted and untrusted outside networks, such as the Internet. A firewall can be hardware, software, or both.
OPNsense Enterprise Ready
OPNsense is an open source, easy-to-use and easy-to-build FreeBSD based firewall and routing platform.
OPNsense includes most of the features available in expensive commercial firewalls, and more in many cases. It brings the rich feature set of commercial offerings with the benefits of open and verifiable sources.
Local development, local setup, local support by WebSoftPC in the greater Sacramento California area. Give us a call today 916.300.6333 or use the contact form below.
Intrusion & Detection
Inline IPS system of OPNsense is based on Suricata and utilises Netmap to enhance performance and minimize cpu utilisation. This deep packet inspection system is very powerful and can be used to mitigate security threats at wire speed.
Integrated SSL Blacklist (SSLBL)
A project maintained by abuse.ch. The goal is to provide a list of “bad” SSL certificates identified by abuse.ch to be associated with malware or botnet activities. SSLBL relies on SHA1 fingerprints of malicious SSL certificates and offers various blacklists.
Reporting & Monitoirng
System Health
A modern take on RRD graphs with the option to zoom in and export data.
Netflow Exporter
Use your favorite net-flow analyzer to see most active users, interfaces, ports & applications.
Insight – Integrated Netflow Analyzer
OPNsense also offers an integrated Netflow analyzer without the need for additional plugins or tools, similar to what you may find in high-end commercial products.
Kubernetes and Virtualization
Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration platform that enables the operation of an elastic web server framework for cloud applications. Kubernetes can support data center outsourcing to public cloud service providers or can be used for web hosting at scale. Website and mobile applications with complex custom code can deploy using Kubernetes on commodity hardware to lower the costs on web server provisioning with public cloud hosts and to optimize software development processes.
Kubernetes Orchestrator
Kubernetes, or k8s, is an open-source platform that automates Linux container operations. It eliminates many of the manual processes involved in deploying and scaling containerized applications, In other words, you can cluster together groups of hosts running Linux containers, and Kubernetes helps you easily and efficiently manage those clusters.
Docker Container
Docker is a bit like a virtual machine. But unlike a virtual machine, rather than creating a whole virtual operating system, Docker allows applications to use the same Linux kernel as the system that they’re running on and only requires applications be shipped with things not already running on the host computer. This gives a significant performance boost and reduces the size of the application.
VMware Virtualization
VMware is a virtualization and cloud computing software that changes the way we run server workloads by distributing the work of a given virtual server across multiple physical hosts. It also enables each physical host to run multiple virtual server instances.
VMware is the leading virtualization software in the web hosting field.
Enterprise Storage with ZFS and FreeNAS
FreeNAS is an operating system that can be installed on virtually any hardware platform to share data over a network. FreeNAS is the simplest way to create a centralized and easily accessible place for your data. Use FreeNAS with ZFS to protect, store, and back up all of your data. FreeNAS is used everywhere, for the home, small business, and the enterprise.
Why ZFS?
The ZFS file system is a revolutionary new file system that fundamentally changes the way file systems are administered, with features and benefits not found in any other file system available today. Please check out the link below for further details on why more enterprise companies are moving to ZFS.
FreeNAS Storage Software
FreeNAS is a Free and Open Source Network Attached Storage (NAS) software appliance. This means that you can use FreeNAS to share data over file-based sharing protocols, including CIFS for Windows users, NFS for Unix-like operating systems, and AFP for Mac OS X users.
Enterprise Storage Solution
FreeNAS is an enterprise storage solution that will not break the bank. Freenas was originally built on FreeBSD but now is being ported to other Linux systems including CentOS, and Debian based systems. FreeNAS can grow as your company grows.